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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Adam's apple
 喉結

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 Ad·am's ap·ple /ˌædəmˈzæpəl/ 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ad·am n.
 1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
 2. As a symbol “Original sin;” human frailty.
    And whipped the offending Adam out of him.   --Shak.
 Adam's ale, water. [Coll.]
 Adam's apple.
 1. Bot. (a) A species of banana (Musa paradisiaca). It attains a height of twenty feet or more. --Paxton. (b) A species of lime (Citris limetta). 2. The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent.
 Adam's flannel Bot., the mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
 Adam's needle Bot., the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ad·am's ap·ple See under Adam.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Adam's apple
      n 1: tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal
           flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to
           Thailand [syn: crape jasmine, crepe jasmine, crepe
            gardenia, pinwheel flower, East Indian rosebay, Nero's
            crown, coffee rose, Tabernaemontana divaricate]
      2: the largest cartilage of the larynx [syn: thyroid cartilage]